ought/aught
Having learnt ough with all of its varying sounds, we now meet ought and aught.
Thankfully this is an easier lesson.
Both ought and aught can make the same sound -'ort'.
OR, ought can say 'out'.
As with the previous family, build familiarity through regular reading of the list. We have kept this list separate to help make it easier to learn the words.
Help the pupil to chunk words where necessary. Say the word and listen for the natural breaks. They often come after the vowel sound. Remember - each chunk of a word must contain a vowel - or a vowel sound (in the case for example of words with 'y' making a vowel sound.)
Thankfully this is an easier lesson.
Both ought and aught can make the same sound -'ort'.
OR, ought can say 'out'.
As with the previous family, build familiarity through regular reading of the list. We have kept this list separate to help make it easier to learn the words.
Help the pupil to chunk words where necessary. Say the word and listen for the natural breaks. They often come after the vowel sound. Remember - each chunk of a word must contain a vowel - or a vowel sound (in the case for example of words with 'y' making a vowel sound.)
Level 3
ort: ought bought brought fought thought nought
caught taught daughter
out: drought
Odd words:
laugh laughing laughter laughed
ort: ought bought brought fought thought nought
caught taught daughter
out: drought
Odd words:
laugh laughing laughter laughed
Dictation:
Bill whistled for Jiff and Jiff ran to greet him. Jiff was thoroughly excited to be going out. Together they went up to the top field and through the gate. Bill counted the lambs. He thought one was missing, so he counted again. He phoned Tom. "Tom, I think a lamb is missing. We ought to go and check it is safe." Bill and Jiff walked around the edge of the field by the fence. They found the lamb. It was stuck and trying to wriggle free. Bill gently caught it and lifted it free. It was very scared though, so he took it back to the farm house. Tom checked it over thoroughly and Bill took it back to its mother.
Teaching note: discuss the word 'better', it is in the 'er' family and you have to double the 't' to keep the vowel short, or it would say 'beeter'.
The word excited belongs in the powerful i-e family. Look at this word with your pupil before doing the dictation.
Bill whistled for Jiff and Jiff ran to greet him. Jiff was thoroughly excited to be going out. Together they went up to the top field and through the gate. Bill counted the lambs. He thought one was missing, so he counted again. He phoned Tom. "Tom, I think a lamb is missing. We ought to go and check it is safe." Bill and Jiff walked around the edge of the field by the fence. They found the lamb. It was stuck and trying to wriggle free. Bill gently caught it and lifted it free. It was very scared though, so he took it back to the farm house. Tom checked it over thoroughly and Bill took it back to its mother.
Teaching note: discuss the word 'better', it is in the 'er' family and you have to double the 't' to keep the vowel short, or it would say 'beeter'.
The word excited belongs in the powerful i-e family. Look at this word with your pupil before doing the dictation.
Reading book
Read the AV Bible
A poem to read;
Little Things
A little child I am indeed,
And little do I know;
Much care and help I yet shall need,
That I would wiser grow,
If I would ever hope to do
Things great and good and useful too.
But even now I ought to try
To do what good I may;
God never meant that such as I
Should only live to play,
And talk, and laugh, and eat ad drink,
And sleep, and wake, and never think.
One gentle word that I may speak,
Or one kind, loving deed,
May, though a trifle poor and weak,
Prove like a tiny seed:
And who can tell what good may spring
From such a very little thing?
(Author unknown)
A poem to read;
Little Things
A little child I am indeed,
And little do I know;
Much care and help I yet shall need,
That I would wiser grow,
If I would ever hope to do
Things great and good and useful too.
But even now I ought to try
To do what good I may;
God never meant that such as I
Should only live to play,
And talk, and laugh, and eat ad drink,
And sleep, and wake, and never think.
One gentle word that I may speak,
Or one kind, loving deed,
May, though a trifle poor and weak,
Prove like a tiny seed:
And who can tell what good may spring
From such a very little thing?
(Author unknown)
Read two parables from the KJV.
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A longer reader to develop reading stamina. The text is simple. Take a page a day.
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